National culture and strategic thinking in organizations: review and inferences from the gcc region
International Journal of Development Research
National culture and strategic thinking in organizations: review and inferences from the gcc region
Received 22nd July, 2019; Received in revised form 29th August, 2019; Accepted 02nd September, 2019; Published online 23rd October, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Saeed Hameed AL Dulaimi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The purpose of this study is to draw on the existing literature of the strategic thinking. Then conduct a review of the studies that identified the obstacles of strategic thinking in Arab culture. This will enable to conclude with recommendations to draw the map of raising the level of strategic thinking. The urgent need to think globally instead confined internally then draw the lines which leads to this point. This study is the first theoretically based discussion to detail the specific obstacles required to pave the way to think strategically in Arab culture.